Mapping the mystic: An experimental essay on Sufi characteristics in the Islamic Golden Age
Journal for the Study of Spirituality July 23, 2026 Nayla Hajje, Layal Qaddoumi, Aman Karim et al.
This essay offers an interpretive prosopographical mapping of how classical biographical and historical sources portray Sufi-identified figures active between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. Rather than treating these sources as a demographic census, the study examines how spiritual authority was remembered and represented across biographical dictionaries, regional histories, and modern...